Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaf75395fbd92ee5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-08-19 11:03:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 79c10d09c3884191b239b71ad0e06ac8 SHA-1: d209b32eed8a9a70c162adf03c5f8c6f002b3ac4 SHA-256: aaf75395fbd92ee539199fb862164e01ab36ede444a278dfccf4d025688e142a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The presence of a callback lure heuristic indicates a potential phishing or tech-support scam. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.gc-antey.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kajaxegerozivi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608639eb8e9ee---wajavutofoxiribobesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dean-cpa.com/files/adminpic/file/zikab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendymamy.pl/userfiles/file/45124528025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/xufosukonurezadabukexeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/gafivumobitexafozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cs8r9917bulb055s8vrcj9p16/miruwovenovulawoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilliantsolarpaneling.com/userfiles/file/fipelonagewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ede223e659102d2c0ffc222339130faa/73592004019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0335b70cafd8acec646c25863590c6/genupiwijite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motopujcovnateplice.cz/userfiles/file/35861326278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/25214931422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e85288ca5c0fe516c1a7105ea5dd3170/sokotufakibanupodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f128fbbcc6---89832243890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alharithiforcameras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43584968314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edarky.net/data/file/70536450849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/difikuvoxibozid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmountvernon.com/uploads/files/23816816568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59d0d9595acc6b39806f7fef1eb6f300/61926327904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/478f5e9c7d645cd55a3f76ec408ec372/8184718065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ac19756ce72894d9b719f28c95a370f/86319336616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c513739296f---vemirusuludomefunet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/12007200156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/75594970413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=steam+engines+for+sale+south+africaPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e76c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE76C 17172 bytes
SHA-256: f1df2513d96a9d83ff267b9f7171c61f0672acae3dcd9ce7863707a4a2755a84
font_01_sfnt_off00011480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11480 10960 bytes
SHA-256: acccd765b9bec796b18ce3ae4d0468071affb24f42be5b6aab17198c441e7460
font_02_sfnt_off00012db7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1